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GRADUATE SCHOOL
www.miami.edu/grad
All graduate work (except for the Masters degree in Law) at the University of Miami is under the direction of the Dean
of the Graduate School and the Graduate Council.
All graduate students at the University of Miami are subject
to the general standards and requirements of the University
and its various departments in regard to attendance, examinations,
payment of fees, and conduct, as well as to the specific requirements
of the Graduate School. The graduate student is expected to
assume the initiative in completing all requirements in the
time specified.
Admission requirements are described in the Bulletin of the Graduate
School, and may be obtained from the Graduate School, 1541 Brescia
Avenue. Information is also available on the Internet at: www.miami.edu/grad.
Application forms are distributed by and processed through the various
Schools and Colleges.
Prospective students should note that “graduate study” means
an integrated program of advanced, specialized study, based on an
undergraduate major and/or adequate background, presupposing academic
and personal maturity, and making much more than average demand upon
the industry, initiative, and scholarship of the student. The term
must be distinguished from “post-graduation study” which
means merely that courses, not necessarily of graduate level, are
taken after the student has received a bachelor’s degree.
To preserve its ideals of scholarship, conduct, and character the
Graduate School reserves the right and the student by his/her registration
concedes the right to require the withdrawal of any student for any
reason deemed sufficient by the Graduate School at any time.
MISSION
The mission of the Graduate School is to promote graduate education,
scholarship, and research; to support individuals, departments, and
programs in the pursuit of excellence; to foster innovative, multidisciplinary,
and interdisciplinary activities; and to maintain high ethical and
academic standards in graduate studies.
The standards of study and conduct in the Graduate School are high.
They are not set and maintained by the Graduate School but rather
by the faculty who determine the standards for their individual departments.
The Graduate School through its Council sets no course requirements
for a degree. It does set certain general residence, grade and examination
standards. Fundamentally the Graduate School delegates responsibility
to the student and his/her Committee. Within this broad responsibility
the recommendation for the degree rests with the Committee.
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